Inside The SpaceX Moon Launch That Just Made History
On Thursday night, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first-ever private moon mission. The $100 million mission is headed by SpaceIL, a nonprofit organization based in Israel. The company designed and built the 1,322-pound lunar lander called “Beresheet,” which means “in the beginning” (the first words in the Bible). Beresheet — which is equipped with cameras, magnetic sensors, and transmitters to relay data to and from to Earth — launched on Thursday inside the top of a Falcon 9 rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceIL started as a Google Lunar XPrize team and is backed by South African billionaire Morris Kahn. If the Beresheet mission survives a weeks-long trip to the lunar surface, it will make Israel the fourth country ever to pull off a moon landing. Read more here: https://read.bi/2XlglCv MORE SPACE CONTENT: Exploring Mars Every Day For 15 Years Reveals What It Would Be Like To Go There https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h4zyXnKvW0 How NASA Paints Its Spacecrafts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl1ibTXuerw NASA’s $3.5 Billion Idea To Save Earth From A Supervolcano Apocalypse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leU3-1eHnw4 ------------------------------------------------------ #SpaceX #Moon #TechInsider Tech Insider tells you all you need to know about tech: gadgets, how-to's, gaming, science, digital culture, and more. Subscribe to our channel and visit us at: https://ift.tt/fxZ2E2 TI on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1fEbtRI TI on Instagram: https://ift.tt/1S8jzxH TI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSIDER on Snapchat: https://insder.co/2KJLtVo ------------------------------------------------------ Inside The SpaceX Moon Launch That Just Made History
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